MET Changed Everything— Gabe’s Experience

“Before Mindful Emotions Training, I was a ticking time bomb. I wasn’t necessarily angsty or enraged in the cool, sexy way either. I didn’t smoke cigarettes under bridges or ride my motorcycle at the break of dawn. I didn’t throw rocks through windows (although, really wanted to) or listen to death metal in garages.

Rather, I was a vat of nitroglycerin, brimming with repressed rage, paralyzed by anxieties, and so familiar with the feeling of panic that I could call it my most reliable friend.

In four weeks, Mindful Emotions Training changed everything. And the most unbelievable part is that it really wasn’t that difficult. In fact, it was really simple. Michael Taft is incredibly knowledgeable about the nature of our emotional hardwiring and how we can effectively relate to it, and presents this knowledge clearly through the course. Michael’s background as a legitimate long-term investigator of different meditative and scientific disciplines allows you to understand all of this new and exciting information in very accessible and clear way and point you in the right direction. I really have no reason to sugarcoat this testimonial or nerf the corners of your experience.

So just drop the stories and believe me when I say this course will undoubtedly lead to growth and your emotional progress as long as you just do the work. Just do it.” ~ Gabe Gould, MET student

Your Journey of Emotional Healing

Session One: Emotions Are Body SensationsEmotions are not some foggy idea or airy concept—they are feelings in your body. That gives you a handle on them—you can touch them—and gain a powerful ability to work with them directly.

How understanding the evolutionary background of emotions can help you to deal with them.

The surprising truth about why emotions rule your life, and what to do about it.

The secret of what emotions are “for”—and how that gives you room to feel them.

Guided Meditation: Feeling emotions in the body

Session Two: Accepting the Reality of FeelingsMost of us spend all our time trying to make bad feelings go away—which gives them power over you. One of the most effective ways to deal with your feelings is to simply let them be there.

Why it is counterproductive to resist your emotions

The hidden power of acceptance to make your life bigger and better

Why you will not become a Teletubby, or numb out

Guided Meditation: Accepting emotional sensations

Session Three: Finding FreedomWhat if feelings didn’t have to be something big and dangerous that you were afraid of? In this session, you learn to develop openness and curiosity towards your emotions—the next step in getting your life back.

The life-changing power of knowing what you’re feeling

Learning how to connect with others emotionally

Cultivating a life of meaning

Guided Meditation: Clarity with emotional sensations

Session Four: Feeling GoodYou can spend so much time worrying about negative emotions that you forget to notice the good times. This whole session is specific techniques to make the joy in your life shine brighter.

Frequently Asked Questions

Mindful Emotions Training (MET) is designed so that even people who have no meditation experience can do it. Basically you are learning mindfulness meditation with emotions as the focus. There are teachings sessions that describe how to do the practice, and guided meditations that lead you step-by-step through doing them. If you have any questions about any of the practices, you can ask me in the Facebook group, or in our one-on-one session together. So you will get guidance every step of the way.

Michael has over 35 years of meditation experience, and has designed the MET course so that even highly-trained mindfulness practitioners can get a lot of benefit from the concepts and practices. Many of the concepts may be familiar, but unless you have specifically applied them to your emotional body sensations with the methods Michael is teaching, they may bring a lot of new insights into your emotional life and behavior, as well as your relationships.

Nothing whatsoever is guaranteed. Many people have gotten good results with the course, but YMMV. Michael has made every effort to make this material as useful as it can be, especially in so short a course. The main factor which will determine the benefit you get from Mindful Emotions Training is how much time you put into doing the meditations. However, even with diligent practice, it may be that some people will not get what they’re looking for. Michael offers a 30-day money-back guarantee for just this situation.

If you have extreme emotional problems, such as a clinically-diagnosed personality disorder or some level of psychosis, it is not recommended that you take the course without the advance approval and ongoing guidance of a psychiatrist.

If you’re having trouble with the material or the meditations in Mindful Emotions Training, there is a lot of help available. You can discuss what’s going on with you in the Facebook group, where Michael Taft and other students can help you with it. Furthermore, you can write your questions in an email to Michael directly, or talk to him about it in your one-one-one coaching session. This should be enough to clear up any difficulties you may be having. If, however, you still feel that it’s too difficult, you are encouraged to ask for your money back (within the 30-day limit) and it will be cheerfully refunded. There is really no risk.

Mindful Emotions Training is designed so that you CAN finish it in 28 days. It’s intended to be doable in a reasonable amount of time. But that doesn’t mean that you HAVE to finish it that quickly. There is no upper limit on how long you can take to finish it. If it takes you a year, it takes you a year. You should, however, not wait to do the phone call with Michael, since his availability may change over time.

Yes. Many people report having a hard time feeling their feelings. They sometimes even feel ashamed or broken because of this perceived lack. The specific techniques we use to contact emotional sensations in the body in the MET course will, if applied diligently over time, eventually allow many people to feel their emotional sensations more clearly. It’s not guaranteed, but it is a common effect.

Absolutely not. The point of Mindful Emotions Training is that nobody can be happy all the time. We all have natural moods and feelings that rise and fall day in and day out. The MET course is about recognizing that, and becoming much more comfortable and at ease with your emotional ups and downs. Rather than trying to be happy, you are learning to be more relaxed with whatever emotions are arising in the moment.

Absolutely not. It is not psychotherapy and it is not a substitute for therapy. It does, however, work well as an adjunct to psychotherapy for individuals who want to go deeper or have more tools for working with their feelings.

Absolutely not.If you are on psychiatric medications (SSRIs, antipsychotics, anxiolytics, etc.), taking the MET course doesn’t give you the ability to stop taking those. That is a decision you must make with your therapist, independent of the MET course. Mindful Emotions Training may help you to work with your feelings more effectively, however.